Alexes
About 839 American babies have been named Alexes since 1976, most of them around 1994. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2011. About 830 Alexeses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alexes boys named Alexes
Girls and boys called Alexes
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 700 girls and 139 boys in all, and in 2006 the split was 17 to 14.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 14 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 839
- Estimated living today
- 830
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1994
- Best rank
- 2,412th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1976
- Girls / boys
- 700 / 139
How old the living Alexeses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 839 babies given the name since 1976, about 830 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Alexes is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alexes is most concentrated in California (6.4×), Texas (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1994
The most popular girls’ names the year Alexes peaked:
Related names
Alexes against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.